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Economy at a Glance

Industrial raw materials are available at Anbar Province which can be extracted
through open mine methods like that of natural gas and oil in (Ukaz) gas field
westward Anbar which reserves is estimated to be (50) b. f³ and (Reesha) gas field, oil
experts estimates refers to the availability of oil reservoirs in the Province of Anbar
which need more exploring processes so as to estimate the quantities of the reserves
and its economic feasibility. Anbar has approximately 53 Trillion cubic feet of natural
gas in addition to the natural mineral fortunes, such as gold, phosphate, iron, uranium,
sulfur, and silver. There are water resources embodied in the River Euphrates which
runs (450 km), from the western north to the eastern south of the Province. In
addition, there are four big water surfaces, the lakes of (Habbaniyah, lake of dam of
Hadeethah, lake of Thirthar, and Razaza Lake).

There are reservoirs of groundwater suitable for irrigation in the western desert and
arable fertile soil.

Infrastructures

There is only one railway in the province. It starts from the capital, Baghdad, to end at
the mines' area at Ukashat in Qaim, having the length of (522) km. This railway is
used to carry passengers and goods. Anbar has (24) station for passengers and (5) for
goods.

 The highway is regarded as the longest of the main roads in the province of
Anbar, as it is (596) km. It stretches from Baghdad- Faluja- Ramadi-
Turaibeel- Tunuf at the Iraqi- Syrian borders.
 Another way has the length of (219) km linking Qaim – Ukashat- Rutbah
district.
 Qaim- Hadeethah road, (156) km
 Nikhaib- Ar'ar outlet (160) km on the borders of Saudi Arabia.

Province of Anbar has borders with three states: Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan,
Syria, and Saudi Arabia Kingdom.

The Province has (4) outlets:

- Turaibeel outlet with the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.
- Tunuf outlet with Syria.
- Qaim outlet with Syria.
- Ar'ar outlet with Saudi Arabia Kingdom.